"With some justification, for years we have heard trumpeted the superiority of the American (with minor exceptions) two-party system as opposed to the typically unstable multi-party parliamentary system used by the Europeans and others....That is now in danger.
...This evidence-free impeachment was virtually the American equivalent of the “confidence or no confidence vote” employed by parliaments, a vote that happens or is threatened so often in that system it is head-spinning (cf. the U. K., Israel, and Italy, which sometimes approaches the daily).
...The Democrats are already two relatively-equal parties, one center-left and the other almost purely socialist.
On the Republican side, the Never Trumpers may want a party of their own.
That makes four that actually already exist ideologically.
Will they split?
Where do we go from there?
How many more possible parties are lurking in the political underbrush?..."
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